Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — SURGERY CAN CURE CROOKS [ARTICLE]

SURGERY CAN CURE CROOKS

Michigan Judge Declares Half th* Criminals in the U. 8. Might Be Saved. Chicago.—“ Fifty per cent of the criminals In this country under thirty years of age can be restored to good citizenship under proper surgical attention.? , Judge George W. Bridgeman of Benton Harbor, Mich., made that statement at the dinner Msf the American Association of Oriflcial Burgeons in the Hotel La Salle here. "Seventy-five per cent of the crime Inals brought into the courts of this country are between tile ages of fifteen and twenty-four years and 80 per cent of them suffer from physical disability,” said Judge Bridgeman. “In most of these cases this disability Is responsible for mental disability, manifested in crime, and it.is capable of correction.”